Major factors that hinder the development of Students' oral communicative competence with Particular reference to grade eleven students of Arjo high school and preparatory programme
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2011-05
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Addis Ababa Universiy
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This study explored the major factors that hinder the development of students' oral
communicative competence with particular reference to grade 11 students of Arjo High
School and Preparatory program. For this reason, the study incorporated 36 students out of
228. That is, the sllldy covered 15.8% of the targeted population. It also included four
English language teachers. As the students of grade 11 were grouped into four sections,
simple random sampling technique was employed to determine the representative sample
from each group. To gather data from the subjects, the study employed questionnaire,
structured interview and observation. To gather data from the teachers,a questionnaire of23
items and a structured interview 0/'1 items were employed. To gather information from the
students, a close-ended questionnaire of 22 items was designed and distributed to the
students. The result shows there are a number of factors that hinder the development of
students' oral communicative competence. Twelve major factors that hinder students' oral
communicative competence are identified. Since the aim is exploring the major factors that
hinder the development of students' oral fluency, the researcher selected those factors that
are rated more than 50% from highest to lowest as major inhibiting factors. As the result
reveals, most factors are related to students, teachers, instructional material and class size.
So, large class size, fixed seats that are difficult to move, lack of access to teaching aids,
emphasis on gram/i1ar and vocabulary rather than speaking, dislike towards practicing
speaking shortage of English textbooks that teach speaking, poor provision by the teacher of
speaking activities, poor background speaking experience, teacher dominance in the
classroom, lack of confidence in speaking, use of mother-tongue, and shortage of words to
express ideas and feelings are the major factors.
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Arjo high school and preparatory programme